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I guess it's also a function of we -- the users -- not owning the software but
merely the license, and that the "company" retains ownership rights and can do
anything it wants to.
While vinyl LP's, 45's, cassettes and 8-tracks are obviously out for good, at
least you actually possessed them and not some freeky license to play them on
certain "approved" stereo systems.
-- "grandpa" Ken in Atlanta
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From: Mark Giffin <mgiffin -at- earthlink -dot- net>
To: Peter Grainge <pgforums -at- gmx -dot- com>
Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Sent: Sun, August 21, 2011 1:19:04 PM
Subject: Re: FrameMaker 10 trial removes my Acrobat installation?
Thanks Peter. I consider it real bad manners for a program, trial or not, to
remove an existing program unasked and leave me without it. It's especially bad
from a big and presumably professional outfit like Adobe. If Adobe had a notice
somewhere telling me that their FrameMaker 10 trial would remove my old version
of Acrobat and install an inoperable Acrobat version instead, I missed it.
Maybe Adobe figures that since my Acrobat 6 was so old, I've gotten more than my
money's worth and they are justified in removing it because I owe them all the
upgrade fees I never paid. Like when I used to be a hippie and had hair way down
past my shoulders and I one day went to see an old union barber in his
barbershop and he told me he figured I owed him.
Mark
On 8/21/2011 4:02 AM, Peter Grainge wrote:
> Sorry, I should have said FM trial and Acrobat.
>
> That may impact your old version of FM requiring you to reinstall that as
well.
> ________________________________________
>
> Peter Grainge
> www.grainge.org
>
>
> On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 07:55:41 +0100, Peter Grainge <pgforums -at- gmx -dot- com> wrote:
>> Yes it does make sense in that you can only have one version of Acrobat
>>installed on a single machine.
>>
>> You will now have to uninstall the FM10 trial and reinstall your old version.
>>
>> The moral is never to install trial versions on production machines.
>> ________________________________________
>>
>> Peter Grainge
>> www.grainge.org
>>
>
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